2021 Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winners
Awards for 1st, 2nd and honorable mention in each category are at the judges’ discretion. If a category does not have a contestant that averages a score with the appropriate minimum, it is possible that that category will not have a 1st place winner (or 2nd or Honorable Mention). Congratulations to these outstanding students and their teachers!
| Competition Category | Award | Student | Teacher |
| College Voice | 1st place | Emma Davis | Carol Eikum |
| 2nd place | Callie Cooper | Victoria Vargas | |
| Honorable Mention tie | Gabriel Toso | Peter Halverson | |
| Honorable Mention tie | Jacob Wilde | Tracey Engelman | |
| College Strings | 1st place | Olga Kossovich | Alejandro Drago |
| 2nd place | Yu-Chia Hsu | Sally O'Reilly | |
| Honorable Mention | Grace Alexander | Charles Gray | |
| College Piano | 1st place | Hermione Yim | Kathryn Ananda-Owens |
| 2nd place | Ben Johnson | Tony Padilla | |
| Honorable Mention | Xiaoliang Qian | Alexander Braginsky | |
| College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | 1st place | Charlie Gannon | Preston Duncan |
| 2nd place | Claire Zwiefelhofer | Jennifer Gerth | |
| Honorable Mention | Cameron Vinson | Preston Duncan | |
| High School Voice | 1st place | Leo Dworsky | John De Haan |
| 2nd place | Donovan Schumacher | Judy Bender | |
| Honorable Mention | Ava Bartel | Teresa Tierney | |
| High School Strings | 1st place | Penelope Corbett | Natsuki Kumagai |
| 2nd place | Brad Gibson | Mina Fisher | |
| Honorable Mention | Evan Schuman | Aaron Janse | |
| High School Piano | 1st place | William Gannon | Joseph Zins |
| 2nd place tie | Orion Kim | Joseph Zins | |
| 2nd place tie | Ryan Holt | Chris Weldon | |
| Honorable Mention | Tasha Piyabongkarn | Christopher & Megan Wallace | |
| High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | 1st place tie | Izaiah Cheeran | Carrie Vecchione |
| 1st place tie | Garrett Myers | Preston Duncan | |
| 2nd place | Jonah Walt | Preston Duncan | |
| Honorable Mention | Andrei Bancos | Scott Anderson | |
| Middle School Piano | 1st place | Isabel Li | Philip Low |
| 2nd place | Edward Ojard | Nicholas Susi | |
| Honorable Mention tie | Madeleine Klevay | Elena Piastro | |
| Honorable Mention tie | Thomas Stang | Chris Weldon | |
| JUDGES | |
| Category | Judge |
| College & High School Voice | Kristin Griffeath |
| College & High School Voice | Robin Griffeath |
| College & High School Voice | Melyssa Rice |
| College & High School Strings | Angela Hanson |
| College & High School Strings | Aja Majkrzak |
| College & High School Strings | Lindsay Schlemmer |
| College Piano | Grigor Khachatryan |
| College Piano | Rene Lecuona |
| College Piano | Nicholas Susi |
| High School Piano | Christopher Atzinger |
| High School Piano | Amy Grinsteiner |
| High School Piano | Du Huang |
| Middle School Piano | Jill Dawe |
| Middle School Piano | Tina Juan Park |
| Middle School Piano | Diana Shapiro |
| High School and College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Robert Adney |
| High School and College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Julia Bogorad-Kogan |
| High School and College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | John Miller |